Animal trap



W. A. GIBBS ANIMAL-TRAP Filed Nov. 12, 1920 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 W. A. GIBBS ANIMAL TRAP Filed Nov. 12, 1920 2 Sheets-5heet 2 Patented Apr. l, 1924.

WALTER a. GIBBS, or wrtmime ron, DELAWARE.

ANIMAL TRAP.

Application filed November 12, 1920. Serial No. 423,664.

To all whom it may concern: carry the arm forwardly from the position Be it known that I, VVAL'rna A. GIBBS, a in which it is shown in Fig. 1 into a posicitizen of the United States, residing in tion overlying the extension 1 of the Wilmington, New Castle County, Dclaframe. The arm 6 .is preferably so shaped l3 ware, have invented certain lmproven'ients that when it is carried forward by the to in Animal Traps, of which the following spring 7, a portion of the arm passes is a specification. closely over the jaws 2, 2, when the latter The primary object of my invention is are in the upright, closed position, the arm to provide mechanical means, auton'iatiin the present instance having a central. F cally operable, for administering to an anirounded portion (5 which gives the necesmal a hypodermicinjection; a further obsary clearance for the jaws when the said ject of the invention being to provide aniarm is shifted.

inal trapping mechanism with means for Suitably secured to the arm 6, in the automatically administering an injection to present instance to the portion 6 thereof, "1 any animal caught thereby. is a hypodermic syringe comprising in the re The devices by means of which these, and present instance a rubber bulb 8 having other objects hereinafter brought out, are therein a ported needle member 9, while a accomplished will be more readily under suitable receptacle or container 10 for the stood from the attached drawings, in bulb is secured to the arm 6.

in which: I Pivotally mounted upon the frame 1 is a to Figure 1, is a plan view of a trap treadle 11 which cooperates in the usual equipped with my hypodermic device, the manner with a latch member 12, also pivtrap being shown in the set position; otally attached to the frame, to retain the Fig. 2, is a vertical section on the line jaws in open relation. The jaws when open 1% 2-42, Fig. 1, and I overlie the arm 6, the latter being in the set Fig. 3, is a vertical section on the line position, so that the retaining means for 3-3, Fig. i. the'jaws operate through the jaws to retain.

/Vith reference to the drawings, 1 indithe arm in set position, the arm being recates the main frame of a trap upon which leased with the closing of the jaws. an is pivotally mounted a pair of jaws 2, *2, It will now be clear that with the above said jaws being actuated by means of two described device, when an animal becomes coiled springs 3, 3, carried in the present caught between the jaws 2, 2, the arm 6 beinstance by a rod at which extends between ing released carries the syringe forward so the opposite sides of an extension 1 of the that it strikes that portion of the animal as frame. One end of each of the springs 3 gripped by the jaws, the poison or drug to is confined beneath the cross piece 1' of the contained in the syringe being injected by frame, while the opposite ends of the the force of the concussion into the animal, springs underlie a lever arm 5, pivotally thereby relieving the pain or killing mounted in the present instance upon the animal. as rod 4., said arm 5 being of the well known The device described is capable of much on form and adapted under the influence of modification with no departure from the the springs 3 to act upon the jaws 2,2, to sential features of the invention, The bring them together and to retain them in rice for example is entirely operabiein the closed. relation. absence of the jaws 2, 2, and may me be no Pivotally mounted upon the rod 4 intho employed to administer a drug without lice present instance is an arm 6, said arm pref otherwise injuring the animal. Numerous erably being generally of the shape shown other forms of syringe also may be one withhpertures 6 in the ends through which ployed with entire satisfaction, the the said rod passes. The arm 6 has ope-i"- terms and proportions of the various w ably associated therewith a spring 7 which, inents may be materially altered to suit exin the present instance, is carried by the rod isting conditions and tar particular result 4, and which has one end thereof overlying desired. r

the cross piece 1, while the other end en- 1 claim: D gages a projecting lug (3 upon the said i. The combination with inians tor gapllll arm. 'lhe tendency of the spring 7 is to ping an animal to prevent escape thereof, Ficof means automatically operative with the gripping means for applying to said animal a drug or poison.

2. The combination with means for gripping an animal to prevent escape thereof, of means for applying to the retained animal a drug or poison, and an animal actuable element for setting the said respective means into operation. to grip the animal and to apply the drug or poison thereto.

3. In animal trapping mechanism, the combination with animal gripping means, of means automatically operable subsequent to the operati of the gripping means for. applying a drug or poison to the retained animal.

4:. The Combination with an animal actuable element, of an auton'iatically movable member normally retained in retracted position by said element and adapted to advance into "engagement with an animal actuating theelement to release the said member, and means carried by the member for applying to said animal a drug or poison.

5. The combination with means for gripping an animal to prevent escape thereof, of means including a hypodermic syringe operatively associated with the gripping means for applying to the retained animal a drug or poison.

6. The combination of a frame, a mem ber pivotally mounted on said frame. a spring for actuating said member, animal releasable means for retaining the member in a. given set position against the tension of the spring, and a hypodermic injection device carried by said member.

7. The combination with animal trapping mechanism, of means 0 eratively associated with said mechanism i i)! administering to an animal caught thereby a hypodermic injection.

8. In an animal trap, the combination with spring actuated animal retaining jaws,-

and a hypodermic injection device carriedby said member.

10. In an animal trap, the combination with a pair of aws, actuating springs for said jaws, and animal-releasable means for retaining the jaws in open relation, of a spring-actuated. arm releasable from a re tracted position by the closing movement of said jaws, and a hypodermic injection device carried by said arm and arranged when, the arm is released to strike'that portion of an animal gripped by said jaws.

11. The combination with a member antomatically movable from a retracted to an advanced position, of animal releasable means for retaining the member in retracted position, and means carried by the member and adapted by contact with an animal to apply to the latter a drug or poison.

12. The combination with means for grip ping an animal to prevent escape thereof, of animal actuable means for releasing said gripping means, and means also actuated by the animal for applying thereto a drug or poison.

13. In an animal trap, the combination with a pair of automatically movable jaws, of an automatically movable member, a hypodermic injection device carried by said member, and animal-releaseablc means for retaining said jaws in open relation and said member in a retracted position.

WALTER A. GIBBS.

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